If you're on Facebook and previously refused to set up an @facebook.com email address, it was to no avail. The social network just rolled out email addresses for every single user. Fortunately, it's not connected to your external email in any way. However, according to PC Mag, some users have reported that the address is available to the public by default.

Facebook hopes the new system will protect user privacy by replacing external email addresses and replacing them with the @facebook address. Ultimately, it's just an extension of Facebook messages, but it's establishing a basis for something that could extend outside of the social network. Do you think Facebook could make it as an email provider, or should they stick to social networking? And if you can't get enough of Facebook questions, go ahead and take our 6-question Facebook Quick Poll. You know you want to.

Top Opinion

Facebook is leading the public down a path that will insure Facebook controls everything that happens on the internet, and by that time, it will be too late for a change. I think Facebook is intrinsically evil and self serving. Yet people keep following this crazy fad despite the multiple cases of revealed passwords, hacked accounts and "targeted ads". No Big Brother watching you, is there?

I am sick to death of facebook. It makes people sit behind a computer all day pretending to have real lives when they are pathetic losers. The last thing we need is for them to take over email. Stop using facebook. Get out and live FOR REAL!

Facebook is leading the public down a path that will insure Facebook controls everything that happens on the internet, and by that time, it will be too late for a change. I think Facebook is intrinsically evil and self serving. Yet people keep following this crazy fad despite the multiple cases of revealed passwords, hacked accounts and "targeted ads". No Big Brother watching you, is there?

A "fad" would have died years ago. Even Sodahead uses targeted ads, and with its primary demographic being RWNJ conspiracy-nut basement dwellers, I can promise you that this site is potentially more dangerous.

Mark Zuckerberg attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting and gave the keynote speech. That's all I have to know that there is some potential EVIL down the road for all of us Facebook users. He is now connected with the a-holes that run the world.

i like it. but, really its dieing. Factually here you go:Six million users from the United States ditched Facebook falling from 155.2 million to 149.4 million according to figures released from Inside Facebook. Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway and Russia did likewise.

mostly because:Seasonal changes such as school graduations, summer vacations, etc.Facebook advertising issues.Growth lags once Facebook becomes adopted by 50% of a country.Privacy concerns.Technical issues with Facebook in general. I’ve been having a lot lately. The main one is the page not refreshing properly.

my opinion is its gunna end up like myspace, if it doesnt start seeing some potential changes.

Considering the amount of people on Facebook setting up email by default will probably be succesful...but as to how many people will stay with it is another thing altogether.
If I want something in this world I go and get it...I don't need people handing me stuff all the time.

Of course Facebook's email service will make it. Think of it like selling popcorn at a movie theater; you pay for the popcorn at the movie theater because it's convenient. The people at Facebook will make it convenient for you to send email from within Facebook so why would use another email service? Would you rather buy popcorn at the movie theater or go somewhere else? Would you rather send an email from within Facebook or leave Facebook to send an email and then come back in?

It's all about the convenience more than the price. There are too many free email services to use price as an analogy. If you are able to send email from within the Facebook, why open another tab, log into another program to send an email when you can do it from with in Facebook like you can do when logged into Google or Yahoo?

Facebook email won't be the only email provider but they can take some market share away from the other guys, which is what they really want to do. The point of them creating email is to show more traffic on their site so they can continue to charge what they do for advertising.